The lawsuit says that the special, which aired on CBS back in September 2016, was the fruit of a “sham re-investigation” that set out with a “preconceived storyline” that 29-year-old Burke Ramsey killed his younger sister when he was only nine years old by bludgeoning her to death, regardless of what the facts actually reflected. Here’s a longer excerpt from the lawsuit: This is only the most recent lawsuit filed by Burke relating to The Case of JonBenét Ramsey. In October, he sued a pathologist who appears in the special making the aforementioned death-by-bludgeoning claim, and this pathologist is one of the parties named in the more recent lawsuit as well. The earlier lawsuit was for the relatively paltry sum of $150 million. Both lawsuits are still pending in the courts, but Ramsey will have to have a pretty solid case against the network in order to collect a settlement, given the journalistic standards CBS would presumably be interested in maintaining for the sake of future credibility.
